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Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:35 pm
by Fat Rich
So I called into a nice little offlicience on Saturday and asked the older gent his advice on ales, walked out with two of each of the following. My least favorite on the left and most lovely on the right!

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Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:38 pm
by Ollie
You live in Kent and that’s the best you could come up with. :roll:

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:44 pm
by Fat Rich
Been a Guinness man nearly all me drinking life (and odd bottle of red), I'm new to this ale stuff!

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:48 pm
by Ollie
Yup I'm a Guinness and lager man, man.

I am only saying that your local offie didn't overwhelm you with ale from the county that invented a hops, barley, yeast & sugar drink that wasn't made from girders.

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:49 pm
by Apoc
I'm a big fan of Bombardier, but if it's local ale then Wild Boar from the The Slaughterhouse Brewery in Warwick

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:56 pm
by Fat Rich
Yup, it works, second bottle of that Cumberland stuff tastes nicer and the first was very nice :-)

Anyways, back to putting the forks back together and on bike :))

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:56 pm
by madsod
I don't drink very much now 12 pints a year but did work behind bars and have drank and looked after lots of ales


this one is just up the road from me and its very good

http://www.bathales.com/

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:12 pm
by Finbar
I do like the Old Speckled Hen. Fusty Ferret, and I do love to see Fullers London Pride on the pumps.
Just lately, I've taken a liking to Knights Malvern Gold Cider. Mmmmm. Very moorish. :-bd

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:24 pm
by marmike
madsod wrote:I don't drink very much now 12 pints a year but did work behind bars and have drank and looked after lots of ales


this one is just up the road from me and its very good

http://www.bathales.com/

seconded

Ive been buying Bath ales for a couple of years now on and off. really nice

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:37 pm
by Jelly
Ale drinkers are just undercover Morris dancers. ;))

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:50 pm
by wolfzero
the problem with bottled ales is they can be quite different from the draft version :roll: my local club does some cracking guest ales.
some real oddities in amongst them like one called palmers poison named after a murderer :shock:

morris dancers really? lager was produced for women as they could not drink bitter

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:25 pm
by alien937
Ye old snails snot! for me :-bd

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:40 pm
by katanarama
Badger Golden Glory, sounds like a sex act but its a lovely pint.

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:41 pm
by rf ro
doombar fron rock ales in cornwall is very popular at the the pub i work in

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:44 pm
by suzukigoof
Jelly wrote:Ale drinkers are just undercover Morris dancers. ;))


=)) =)) =)) =)) =)) :ymapplause: :ymapplause: :ymapplause: ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ =)) =)) =)) =)) =)) =)) =))

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 12:28 am
by dick faber
been into this recently http://www.brewdog.com/product/punk-ipa

a tasty indian pale ale, made in scotland with all natural ingredients, drunk hapily in sydney.

also liking this czech pilsner http://www.beeriosity.com/date/2012/10/ ... lsner.html, goes well with summer lunches

but if i'm feeling local (to me!)

http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_256 ... e-stubbies, posh and tasty
http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_648 ... r-stubbies, local rot gut made by queesnlanders for queenslanders (dont buy the stuff brewed outside of queensland, australia!) also gives hangovers that you can build houses on

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 12:37 am
by wolfzero
just back from the local club and they had london pride on as the guest ale and it went down a treat :D

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 1:36 am
by eliteevil
Jelly wrote:Ale drinkers are just undercover Morris dancers. ;))
As a CAMRa member and homebrewer I resent that although Morris dancing and ale drinking do seem to cross sometimes. :-t

If you are into bottled beer white shield is quite common and used to be good, I find bottled beer tends to be quite thin and gassy compared to on draught though.

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:20 am
by Finbar
eliteevil wrote:
Jelly wrote:Ale drinkers are just undercover Morris dancers. ;))
As a CAMRa member and homebrewer I resent that although Morris dancing and ale drinking do seem to cross sometimes. :-t

If you are into bottled beer white shield is quite common and used to be good, I find bottled beer tends to be quite thin and gassy compared to on draught though.
I done a pub management course a while back & one of the teachers described CAMRA folk as Plain clothes Morris Dancers. =)) =))

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:28 am
by katanarama
dick faber wrote:been into this recently http://www.brewdog.com/product/punk-ipa

a tasty indian pale ale, made in scotland with all natural ingredients, drunk hapily in sydney.
Scottish/indian beer, Should call it Hawk eye the noo.

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 10:02 am
by Finbar
katanarama wrote:
dick faber wrote:been into this recently http://www.brewdog.com/product/punk-ipa

a tasty indian pale ale, made in scotland with all natural ingredients, drunk hapily in sydney.
Scottish/indian beer, Should call it Hawk eye the noo.
=)) =)) =)) :-bd

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:55 pm
by Tony V
"Bullmastiff Son of a Bitch" Brewed in Cardiff. Always wanted to give it a bash just to order it over the counter ;))

Anyone had it?

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:01 pm
by Dixie
Hi all,I like an ale from the Frog island Brewery,its called Fire Bellied Toad,and at 5% not over the top.You can get it on the internet as well :king: Dixie

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:35 pm
by EO
Just the simple things in life really. Stella or Kronenburg. (when I was drinking ;) )

Re: Favorite Ale

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:33 am
by Finbar
EO wrote:Just the simple things in life really. Stella or Kronenburg. (when I was drinking ;) )
Fizzy fighting juice.... =))